Does weight lifting help your performance?
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Anton posted 2 years ago.
Awesome! Weight training is super important...Not only for increased strength,but for muscle balance and injury prevention.
Over many years of being athletic ,I'll cycle off of lifting for awhile and get small...During that time I also suffer more injuries and am more fatigued and generally don't do as well. At my age I have found lifting has helped me so much to maintain my boyish good looks.(joke)
I won't stop lifiting again....I may down cycle a few times a year
but weight training has helped my racing recovery and over all well being.
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During the summer of 2005, I did lots of cycling. Probably 40-50 miles 6 days / week. Then in the beginning of September I went off to school, and was unable to bring my bike. This was my first year of college, so...I got lazy and didn't do any swimming, biking, running, or anything else related to endurance the entire school year. However, I did lift weights a lot, supplemented with creatine, gained 15 lbs, my squat strength went up a ton. That's the only athletics I did the whole year.
Now two weeks ago I started training for triathlons again, and I was unsure if my off season lifting-only training had helped or hindered me. Well...
My bike speed has actually increased, so has my run - as well as my swim. In the first two weeks of training (last endurance training was august), I am faster than I was at the end of an entire summer of endurance training.
Anyone else experience this despite so many sources that say weight training will not help your endurance directly?